In this week's Second Reading podcast, Jim Henson and Joshua Blank discuss the Trump presidential campaign's law and order campaign in the wake of the Republican National Convention and the shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and briefly touch on the Texas Attorney General's efforts to prevent Harris County from sending mail-in voting applications to everyone in the county.
You can find links to many of the Texas polling results discussed in the podcast in another blog post. For ease of reference, the graphic below presents the data Henson kept stumbling over in the podcast.
| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Very favorable | 7% | 22% | 55% |
| Somewhat favorable | 20% | 22% | 29% |
| Neither favorable nor unfavorable | 19% | 19% | 7% |
| Somewhat unfavorable | 30% | 12% | 6% |
| Very unfavorable | 23% | 17% | 2% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 2% | 8% | 1% |
About the Second Reading podcast. The podcast has been produced intermittently by the Texas Politics Project, with production support from UT's Liberal Arts Development Studio, since 2016, primarily as an instructional component for a course in Texas government and politics offered by the government department at UT Austin during summer semesters. These shows were generally hosted by Jim Henson, who designed the UT course, and usually featured Josh Blank, with intermittent in-studio guests. The podcasts have been publicly available via major podcast channels, but haven't been marketed to the public. The podcast is again part of the instructional design of GOV 312L: Politics and Government in Contemporary Texas during the Summer 2020 semester. The plan is to transistion from probably the longest soft-launch in the short but rich history of podcasting to a weekly public podcast in late summer/early fall of 2020. You can find past episodes and subscribe to the Second Reading podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.